Corpus linguistics is, to date, still an underexplored methodology in onomastics. This article seeks to advance the field through a theoretical discussion of onomastic issues from a corpus linguistic point of view. It presents an overview of the linguistic status, meaning and grammar of proper names in order to highlight aspects that lend themselves to corpus linguistic inquiry. Earlier onomastic research is adduced, to highlight how corpus linguistic methods have substantially improved our understanding of names in language use. While previous onomastic work has often concentrated on the description of names in their own right, without necessarily taking the usage context into account, it is argued that the investigation of the semantics and the grammar of names needs to be complemented by work that draws on usage-based, corpus linguistic evidence. A stronger integration of four types of corpus linguistic analysis (frequency analysis, concordance analysis, collocation analysis, keyword analysis) is suggested for future research.

迄今为止，语料库语言学在本体论方面仍然是一个尚未被开发的方法。本文旨在通过从语料库语言学的角度对有关异常问题的理论讨论来推动这一领域的发展。它概述了专有名称的语言状态，含义和语法，以突出适合于语料库语言查询的方面。进行了较早的本体论研究，以突出语料库语言方法如何极大地改善了我们对语言使用中名称的理解。尽管先前的有关本体的工作通常只专注于对名称的描述，而不必考虑使用的上下文，但有人认为，对名称的语义和语法的研究需要辅以使用用法的工作来补充基于 语料库的语言证据。建议对四种类型的语料库语言分析（频率分析，一致性分析，搭配分析，关键字分析）进行更强的集成，以供将来研究之用。